US 11,740,097 B2
Method, device and system for managing smell sensibility based on route of moving object
Jae Jun Ha, Hwaseong-si (KR); Young Jun Moon, Sejong-si (KR); and Tae Hee Lee, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/408,712.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0106496 (KR), filed on Aug. 24, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0072881 (KR), filed on Jun. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0057220 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC G01C 21/3461 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3484 (2013.01); G01C 21/3617 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of managing smell sensibility according to a route of a moving object, the method comprising:
checking a planned travel route of the moving object;
determining whether a bad-smell area is included in the planned travel route;
determining whether a bad-smell level of the bad-smell area is equal to or greater than an unpleasantness level of a user of the moving object when the bad-smell area is included in the planned travel route; and
performing a suppression process for blocking introduction of a bad smell into the moving object when the bad-smell level is equal to or greater than the unpleasantness level of the user and maintaining the planned travel route when the bad-smell level is less than the unpleasantness level of the user,
wherein the bad-smell area is designated based on smell information collected by a first moving object having a first smell detector between the first moving object having the first smell detector and a second moving object having a second smell detector having lower performance than the first smell detector.